Rhyme Scheme...Stanzas...Lines...OH MY!

What is the rhyme scheme for the poem “Dreams”?

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

• AABB
• ABAB
• ABCB

When you wish upon a star,

makes no difference who you are,

anything you heart desires will come to you

• BAC

• AAA

• ABA

• AAB

How do you tell a poem's rhyme scheme?

• The rhythm of a poem.

• Rhymes occurring inside the lines of a poem.

• The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem (marked with the alphabet)

• The "paragraph" of a poem.

Which poem matches the rhyme scheme ABBA

• I stubbed my toe

  It hurts a whole bunch

  I wish I had handfuls

  Of pizza to munch

• Roses are red

  Violets are blue

  Wait, they're blue?

  Shouldn't they be violet?

• I just saw a cow

  He wore bright green pants

  And did a fun dance

  My one thought was "Wow"

2.The moon is washing windows,

Dancing off the glass,

Resting on the praying trees

And painting the sleeping grass.

• ABAB

• ABCB

• AABB

• ABCA

The fallen leaves are cornflakes

That fills the lawn's wide dish,

And night and noon

The wind's a spoon

That stirs them with a swish

• ABABC

• ABCAB

• ABBCA

• ABCCB

Instead of a paragraph, in poetry we call the chunks...

• stanzas
• sections
• staza
• stan

Which words don't rhyme with anything else in the poem?

• none
• horses
• Dumpty
• again

“O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,

Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead

Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

What is the rhyme scheme of these lines from a poem?

• ABC

• ABB

• ABA

What is the rhyme scheme?

• A B C D E F G
• AA BB CC DD
• A B C B A B C D
• A B A B C D C D